I'm sort of both genuinely excited for the ways AI will transform work, and simultaneously think that we should encourage AI resentment.
I dunno, I think that like we've passed this inflection point where technology makes things better, and I think in most ways, the tech skeptics are correct, particularly culturally. I don't think we've figured out how to be mature about say streaming, social media, maybe the internet in general, and I don't think there's any way in which AI is easier to get your arms around. We're just not good at figuring out how to be responsible with these technologies as a society. Sometimes I think we look back at the "luddites"; the people who say things will be terrible - for instance, how TV would rot the brain, and then don't actually look at the consequences, and assume that because society hasn't binarily turned off, that they were wrong. Most of the time they were right!
techblueberry•3w ago
I dunno, I think that like we've passed this inflection point where technology makes things better, and I think in most ways, the tech skeptics are correct, particularly culturally. I don't think we've figured out how to be mature about say streaming, social media, maybe the internet in general, and I don't think there's any way in which AI is easier to get your arms around. We're just not good at figuring out how to be responsible with these technologies as a society. Sometimes I think we look back at the "luddites"; the people who say things will be terrible - for instance, how TV would rot the brain, and then don't actually look at the consequences, and assume that because society hasn't binarily turned off, that they were wrong. Most of the time they were right!